He adds: "This is a long time ago, but my memory is pretty good. It didn't happen. I would remember if it did."

11.19am

Dean Kirby

Mr Roache says in the interview that autograph hunters would sometimes call at his home, but he would never invite them inside.

11.27am

Dean Kirby

Asked why he believes the woman has made the allegation against him, Mr Roache says in the interview: "There's a lot of it nowadays.

"Some people want a bit of sensation, a bit of publicity. I'm a very peaceful, gentle person and I don't want any aggravation at all so there was nobody aggrieved or upset."

11.35am

Dean Kirby

In the police interview, Mr Roache is taken through the details of the rape allegation. He says: "I don't remember any of this. I can assure you I don't remember anything about it at all."

He adds: "I have never raped anybody. This whole incident didn't happen as far as I'm concerned. I would remember this."

11.37am

Dean Kirby

He adds: "I have never in my whole life had intercourse with anybody without full consent. It's not in my nature. I would never do that. I categorically deny knowing her or doing anything with her."

11.39am

Dean Kirby

Mr Roache denies suggestions in the interview that he is "cold and calculating".

He says anyone could have seen the internal layout of his home by looking through the windows. He says his habit was to leave open the interior doors.

11.46am

Dean Kirby

Asked if he pinned the complainant to the wall, Mr Roache says in the interview: "I'm a very peaceful and gentle person and I would never do anything to upset anybody. This just didn't happen. I'm absolutely horrified by the whole thing."

He adds: "I have no idea at all why these allegations are being made. I'm staggered - absolutely staggered. I don't really know what the motivation is."

11.58am

Dean Kirby

The court had been taking a short break and the evidence will resume shortly.

12.02am

Dean Kirby

The court hears that Mr Roache provided a hand-written prepared statement to police.

12.12am

Dean Kirby

The jury has been read the statement that Mr Roache gave to police.

In the statement, Mr Roache says he "firmly denies" the alleged indecent assaults took place and says they "do not reflect" his behaviour at the time.

He says: "I have always fully respected the rights and wishes of other people."

12.15am

Dean Kirby

Mr Roache says in the statement that he would never force himself sexually on other people. He adds: "I do enjoy having sex with women."

He says he has had sex with "many women", but says it has always been with their consent.

He adds: "Young girls hold no interest of a sexual nature with me at all."

12.19am

Dean Kirby

He says he would frequently be asked for autographs outside the studios by young girls, but says he would never take them into his dressing room.

12.23am

Dean Kirby

The jury is now being taken through another interview that Mr Roache gave to the police after his arrest. In the interview, a detective is asking Mr Roache about security at Granada Studios.

12.27am

Dean Kirby

Mr Roache says in the interview that security at the studio was good. He says he would occasionally take his family into the studio, but that it was "very rare".

He says he received fan mail and he would usually try to answer it, but he adds: "It would sometimes build up."

12.34am

Dean Kirby

He says in the interview that it would have been unlikely that anyone would be able to get into the studio and wander around on their own.

He denies indecently assaulting a girl in a men's toilet at the studio.

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Liverpool-born Mark joined the Daily Post in January 2014 after seven years as editor of its Merseyside sister title the Liverpool Post. He started out as a weekly news reporter on Wirral Newspapers, and spent seven years at the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo. He was The Press Association's regional correspondent for North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire from 1983 to 1997, before returning to the ECHO as deputy news editor. He has won a number of journalism awards, including the UK Press Gazzette Regional Reporter of the Year award, and in 1993 wrote a book on the James Bulger murder.